Reviews tagging 'War'

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

17 reviews

oh_no's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

absolutely awful content, wonderful book! honestly, if this wasn't non-fiction I'd classify it as a horror! I went through so many emotions while reading : shock, sadness, indignation, anger and sorrow for all those poor girls. my only complaint is that the story is at times hard to follow, sometimes the character have extremely similar, if not identical names. this can't be helped though, as this follows the story of real people. 

would recommend to those who have the stomach for it, regardless of whether they usually read non-fiction (I personally, do not!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Infertility, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion and War

tatdine's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

Be prepared to cry uncontrollably. It’s an unflinching story of betrayal and deceit that led the pain and death of countless women. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and War

emadisonc's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

You fight and you fall and you get up and fight some more. But there will always come a day when you cannot fight another minute more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy

Minor: Domestic abuse, Abortion, and War

katie0528's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.75

This story follows the lives, careers, court battles, and deaths of "the Radium Girls," women who used radium to paint watches, clocks, and equipment starting just before World War I, and moving into World War II. Constantly lied to about the dangers of radium by the companies they worked for, countless women were poisoned by the radioactive material. A tragic tale of young women fighting for answers and justice, this book focuses on the women themselves, not just their battles in court, but the personal hardships so many of them had to endure.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and War

tea_at_mole_end's review against another edition

dark inspiring sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Miscarriage, Sexism, and Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Abortion, Pregnancy, War, and Classism

punk_flower_child's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and War

Minor: Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Abortion

carriehaley89's review

dark informative inspiring sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: War

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

They deserved to be remembered 
This was an incredibly heartbreaking and thought provoking novel. These women fought so hard despite the extraordinary circumstances they faced. They didn’t give up even when they had nothing left.  Learning about the advancements in forensics, medicine, and law was fascinating, and reading about the women’s fight for justice was inspiring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Medical content, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War

alexxrose's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Gore, and Medical content

Moderate: Cancer, Miscarriage, and Grief

Minor: Domestic abuse, Abortion, Pregnancy, and War

ashley_briana26's review

emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

This book is a respectful telling of the lives of the Radium Girls. I came into this knowing nothing about them except that they existed and I closed this book only two days later and I have a much better understanding of the situation and the girls. This takes them from a vague concept of workplace safety and transforms them into real women that lived, worked, suffered, and died. The respect the author has for these victims is evident in her writing. This is not a bland statement of facts but a real story that’s being told that makes it easy to read. I highly recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Abortion, Death of parent, and War